Category Archives: graduate school

Call for Papers: Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia: Debating Democracy in Japan

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Paula

The Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia will be held at the University of Wollongong from 26 to 30 June 2017. The Call for Papers is now open. The conference takes place seventy years since the revised … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Paula

2017 Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan Dates: Late June/Early July (Tentative) Submission Deadline: October 20, 2016 The ASCJ Executive Committee is now accepting panel, individual paper, and roundtable proposals for its 2017 Conference in Tokyo, … Continue reading →

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Funding: 20th Century Japan Research Award for 2016-2017

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Paula

The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for two $1,500 grants to support research in the library’s Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied … Continue reading →

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Call for Proposals: 2017 AATJ Annual Spring Conference

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Paula

The 2017 Annual Spring Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) will be held in Toronto, Ontario, on Thursday, March 16, 2017, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Proposals are invited for individual … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: 2017 Ocha Zanmai Chanoyu & Tea Culture Conference

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Paula

The 4th Ocha Zanmai: 2017 San Francisco International Conference on Chanoyu and Tea Cultures 第4回「お茶三昧」茶の湯と茶文化に関するサンフランシスコ国際会議 Sunday, April 30, 2017 San Francisco State University Theme: Chanoyu & Zen 「茶の湯と禅」 There will be a zazen/meditation session. 坐禅もあります（坐禅を組んで、あるいは椅子席にて瞑想） Guest speakers　特別講師 Dr. Isao … Continue reading →

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Event: Impact of the Digital on Japanese Studies at UChicago

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Paula

The University of Chicago will be hosting a public workshop on “The Impact of the Digital on Japanese Studies” on November 11-12, 2016. The workshop brings together scholars of Japan who are exploring digital and computational approaches to the study … Continue reading →

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Resource: Institutional Repositories

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Travis

Institutional repositories (IRs) are all the rage these days in university libraries and similar institutions, especially in Japan, but also increasingly in the United States. These are databases of journal articles and other similar scholarly products put out by members … Continue reading →

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Translation Workshop: Japanese to English

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Paula

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP Where: University of Oxford, UK When: April 2 to April 5, 2017 We are seeking applications from research students to translate scholarly articles from Japanese to English for the second BAJS (British Association for Japanese Studies) Translation Workshop … Continue reading →

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Travel Grants: UC Berkeley Conference, Tokugawa and the Visual World

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Paula

The Regime and the Scene. Or, What Difference Did the Tokugawa Shogunate Make to the Visual World of Early Modern Japan? Friday, October 28, 2016 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Women’s Faculty Club Lounge University of California, Berkeley http://tokugawavisualworld2016.weebly.com/ “Visual … Continue reading →

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Funding: University of Chicago Library Travel Grants

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Paula

The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago (CEAS) is pleased to announce that Library Travel Grants are available for AY2016-2017. CEAS Library Travel Grants are designed to assist scholars from outside the Chicago metropolitan area in … Continue reading →

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